Reggie thought Blain's love of the vuvuzela would not outlast the World Cup. He was wrong.

Reggie thought Blain's love of the vuvuzela would not outlast the World Cup. He was wrong.
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Early English Books Online (STC 177)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 14 January 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Reggie thought Blain’s love of the vuvuzela would not outlast the…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 177). Copied into this book the fourteenth day of January, 2015. Finis.

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“Reggie thought Blain’s love of the vuvuzela would not outlast the….”
Early English Books Online (STC 177).

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